ziq的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练DAY1
练习材料：L11 (1）Not guilty 时长：72s
Customs Officers are quite tolerant these days, but they can still stop you when you are going through the Green Channel and have nothing to declare.
Even really honest people are often made to feel guilty. The hardened professional smuggler, on the other hand, is never troubled by such feelings, even if he has five hundred gold watches hidden in his suitcase.
When I returned from abroad recently, a particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.
'Have you anything to declare?' he asked, looking me in the eye.
'No', I answered confidently.
'Would you mind unlocking this suitcase please?'
'Not at all,' I answered.
The Officer went through the case with great care. All the thing I had packed so carefully were soon in a dreadful mess.
I felt sure I would never be able to close the case again. Suddenly, I saw the Officer's face light up.
He had spotted a tiny bottle at the bottom of my case and he pounced on it with delight.
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任务配置：L0+L4
知识笔记：
hardened adj. 1. 坚固的;硬化的;淬火的 2.铁石(心肠),狠心的,冷酷的 3. 有核防护设施的
The collapse is similar to what happens to hardened glass when it is smashed with a hammer, he said.
officious adj. 1.爱指手画脚的；爱发号施令的 too ready to tell people what to do or to use the power you have to give orders
smuggler 1.走私者 a person who takes goods into or out of a country illegally
pounce v. 1.猛扑；突袭 to move suddenly forwards in order to attack or catch sb/sth
He pounced on it with delight 他高兴的一把抓了起来
练习感悟：昨天晚上应该发完的。
